#OnThisDay, 24 Sept 1988, East German Christa Luding-Rothernburger wins silver in the women's sprint cycling at the Olympics in Seoul. She'd already won gold at speed skating in the Olympics in Calgary in February 1988.

She is the only person to have won medals at both the Winter and Summer Olympics in the same year.

Since the 1990s, the Summer and Winter Olympics have been held two years apart.

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#OnThisDay, 7 Aug 1948, American high jumper Alice Coachman wins Olympic gold, the first Black woman to win a gold medal.

Later in life, she established the Alice Coachman Track and Field Foundation to help support younger athletes and provide assistance to retired Olympic veterans.

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#OnThisDay, 7 Aug1948, Fanny Blankers-Koen wins her fourth gold Olympic medal at a single games: the first woman to do so.

Fanny had been regarded by critics as 'too old' at 30, and nicknamed 'the Flying Housewife”. Yes, really. 🙄

Watch footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y_G0H-b3QE

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#OnThisDay, 5 Aug 1984, Joan Benoit won the Olympic marathon, the first year a women's marathon was included at the Games.

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#OnThisDay, 4 Aug 1948, the women’s shot put and long jump events were held for the first time at the Olympics in London. Micheline Ostermeyer won gold in the shot put and Olga Gyarmati won gold in the long jump.

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#OnThisDay, 18 July 1976, Romanian Nadia Comăneci becomes the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics. She broke the scoreboards as they only went to 9.99.

In 1989, having lived under tight surveillance and control since she was a child, she defected to the USA by walking through the night from Romania to Hungary.

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#OnThisDay, 24 Sept 1988, East German Christa Luding-Rothernburger wins silver, cycling in the women's sprint at the Olympics in Seoul.

Adding to the gold she won at speed skating in the Olympics in Calgary in February 1988.

She is the only person to have won medals at both Winter and Summer Olympics in the same year. In the 1990s, the Summer and Winter Olympics began to be held two years apart.

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#OnThisDay, 10 Sept 1972, American Doreen Wilber wins Olympic gold in women's archery. It’s the first time archery has been included in the Games since 1920.

Wilber took up the sport after her husband was given an archery set. For a decade, she never lost a competition at State level, and set national or world records 18 times.

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#OnThisDay, 7 Aug 1948, American high jumper Alice Coachman wins Olympic gold, the first Black woman to win gold.

Later in life, she established the Alice Coachman Track and Field Foundation to help support younger athletes and provide assistance to retired Olympic veterans.

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